Alexandra Yatsyk
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 257372 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexandra Yatsyk |
| PRENOMES | Alexandra |
| SOBRENOME | Yatsyk |
| ASSINATURA | YATSYK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kazan Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5335-226X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia
The present paper analyses the public debates in Estonia related to the Soviet-era monuments in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of the ‘mnemonic security’. The latter concept implies a policy that makes certain historical memories ‘secure by delegitimizing or outright criminalizing others’ (Mälksoo 2015:221). In this context, the analytical focus is on such research questions as how a common past is reme…
PiS’s Biopolitical Sovereignty vis-à-vis Brussels’ ‘Gender Ideology’
On the eve of the 2023 Polish general election, the conflict between the incumbent PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – Law and Justice) party and the European Union on the LGBTIQ issue can be framed as a clash of two biopolitical projects – the EU’s (which follows democratic principles and refers to LGBTIQ rights as human rights) and Poland’s (which accepts the EU’s paradigm of human rights but tries to establish its own biopolitical vision of the LGBT…
Biopolitical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK
This paper seeks to examine the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK, as covered by the Russian state media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today). I view the RT coverage through the prism of biopolitics and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to demonstrate multiple discrepancies in its “post-truth” knowledge production strategies. I argue that these strategies aim to expose the hybrid and controversial nature of biopolitical governan…
Biopolitical Populism in Poland
This paper examines the discourse of PiS party in Poland as a form of biopolitical populism. I view this phenomenon as a specific style of political discourse rather than an ideology, that, first , focuses on bodily issues, including family and gender policy, sexual behavior, etc., second —it is inherently performative and as such it appeals to emotions, and, third —it directly communicates with “people” while circumventing the existing instituti…
Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet
The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility
The article addresses visualizations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian and international digital media. Drawing on the scholarship on discoursive hegemony, the authors intoduce a concept of hegemonic regime of visibility as a general frame for understanding the dominant ways of visualizing mega-events which comprise elements of attractiveness and enjoyment, on one hand, and surveillance, control, and security, on the other. Based on the cases…
Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet
This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and (de)bordering. The authors strive to go beyond the traditional understandings of biopolitics as a set of policies corresponding to the management and regulation of (pre)existing populations. In their opinion, biopolitics might be part …
Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond
In this article, I compare Polish and Russian national identity projects as they are being developed by the Kremlin and the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party after 2012 and 2015, correspondingly. I raise a question about nodal points of Poland’s and Russia’s collective identities and their institutional references as ‘illiberal democracies’ to the European normative order. I argue, that despite the existing differences between the two national p…
Europe's frontline of information wars
This article approaches Russophone groups in Estonia and Germany as discursive subjects and producers of their own narratives and storylines that are either technically independent from Moscow's control or implicitly challenge Kremlin's propaganda. The major goal of this research is to compare how the German and Estonian Russophone communities react to the situation of information warfare in which they are important targets of Russia's ‘compatrio…
Comprehensive approximation” with the EU
This article examines Georgia’s experience of civil society engagement with reforms after 2008, which attests to the country’s Euro-integrationist aspirations. In particular, the research addresses practices of the promotion of liberal democracy as forms of biopolitical governmentality pursued by Western state and non-state actors towards and in Georgia, raising the question of what the mechanisms of adoption and “domestication” of this knowledge…
Imperial Biopolitics and Its Disavowals
Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Volume 7, Number 1, January 2018
Illiberal geographies
In this article, we focus on how a variety of illiberal discourses construct a scene for new geopolitical and geocultural imageries of the post-Soviet space, Europe, and Eurasia. Academically, our approach falls into disciplinary niches known as popular geopolitics (when it comes to territories) and biopolitics (when it comes to people). More specifically, we try to see how Russian artistic personalities and public intellectuals contribute to the…
Entertain and Govern
The article looks at Russia’s international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The…
A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
The article examines the question of how the refugee crisis in Europe re-actualizes the existing national geopolitical narratives and affects the border-(re)drawing of European political communities. I particularly refer to the Estonian experience, which I examine through two different case studies. The first one focuses on the refugee issue as seen from the perspective of fostering a less nationalistic and more heterogeneous identity in Estonia,…
Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus
"Russian "Federalism
Relations between the center and regions in Russia, being always in the limelight of attention in political science literature, remain a battlefield of different scholarly interpretations. Several narratives shape the current debate on Russian subnational regionalism or, in very legalistic terms, "federalism." One is bent on applying to Russia such normatively-loaded concepts as multilevel and networked governance, meta-governance, indigenous gov…
Estonia and the refugees
The article addresses two dimensions of the refugee debate in Estonia – political discourses and cultural representations. The authors specifically focus on distinctions between the mainstream Estonian narrative and that of the Russophone community, as well as on the role of Russia and Europe as two major shapers of the refugee debate
Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion . Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Biopower and geopolitics as Russia's neighborhood strategies
In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant realist approaches to Russia's neighborhood policy by introducing the concept of biopolitics as its key element, which makes analysis of political relations in the post-Soviet area more nuanced and variegated. More specifically, we address an important distinction between geop…
Biopolitics and national identities
International audience
Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus
Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia
International audience
Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine
The Four Pillars of Russia’s Power Narrative
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the annexation of Crimea were two major international events in which Russia engaged in early 2014. In spite of all the divergence in the logic underpinning each of them, four concepts strongly resonate in both cases. First, in hosting the Olympics and in appropriating Crimea, Russia was motivated by solidifying its sovereignty as the key concept in its foreign and domestic policies. Second, the scenarios for…
Brands, cities and (post-)politics
This article analyses how two large-scale sports events in Russia shape regional identities and brands, and prompt different social and administrative effects in urban milieus. These two mega-events are the Universiade in Kazan’ in 2013 and the Football World Cup to take place in 11 Russian cities, among which we focus more specifically on Nizhny Novgorod. We argue that the logic of municipal and regional authorities is largely based on post-poli…
Brands, cities and (post-)politics
This article analyses how two large-scale sports events in Russia shape regional identities and brands, and prompt different social and administrative effects in urban milieus. These two mega-events are the Universiade in Kazan’ in 2013 and the Football World Cup to take place in 11 Russian cities, among which we focus more specifically on Nizhny Novgorod. We argue that the logic of municipal and regional authorities is largely based on post-poli…
Biopolitical Populism in Poland
This paper examines the discourse of PiS party in Poland as a form of biopolitical populism. I view this phenomenon as a specific style of political discourse rather than an ideology, that, first , focuses on bodily issues, including family and gender policy, sexual behavior, etc., second —it is inherently performative and as such it appeals to emotions, and, third —it directly communicates with “people” while circumventing the existing instituti…
Illiberal geographies
In this article, we focus on how a variety of illiberal discourses construct a scene for new geopolitical and geocultural imageries of the post-Soviet space, Europe, and Eurasia. Academically, our approach falls into disciplinary niches known as popular geopolitics (when it comes to territories) and biopolitics (when it comes to people). More specifically, we try to see how Russian artistic personalities and public intellectuals contribute to the…
Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond
In this article, I compare Polish and Russian national identity projects as they are being developed by the Kremlin and the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party after 2012 and 2015, correspondingly. I raise a question about nodal points of Poland’s and Russia’s collective identities and their institutional references as ‘illiberal democracies’ to the European normative order. I argue, that despite the existing differences between the two national p…
Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus
Biopower and geopolitics as Russia's neighborhood strategies
In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant realist approaches to Russia's neighborhood policy by introducing the concept of biopolitics as its key element, which makes analysis of political relations in the post-Soviet area more nuanced and variegated. More specifically, we address an important distinction between geop…
Biopolitics and national identities
International audience
A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
The article examines the question of how the refugee crisis in Europe re-actualizes the existing national geopolitical narratives and affects the border-(re)drawing of European political communities. I particularly refer to the Estonian experience, which I examine through two different case studies. The first one focuses on the refugee issue as seen from the perspective of fostering a less nationalistic and more heterogeneous identity in Estonia,…
Entertain and Govern
The article looks at Russia’s international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The…
"Russian "Federalism
Relations between the center and regions in Russia, being always in the limelight of attention in political science literature, remain a battlefield of different scholarly interpretations. Several narratives shape the current debate on Russian subnational regionalism or, in very legalistic terms, "federalism." One is bent on applying to Russia such normatively-loaded concepts as multilevel and networked governance, meta-governance, indigenous gov…
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia
The present paper analyses the public debates in Estonia related to the Soviet-era monuments in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of the ‘mnemonic security’. The latter concept implies a policy that makes certain historical memories ‘secure by delegitimizing or outright criminalizing others’ (Mälksoo 2015:221). In this context, the analytical focus is on such research questions as how a common past is reme…
The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility
The article addresses visualizations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian and international digital media. Drawing on the scholarship on discoursive hegemony, the authors intoduce a concept of hegemonic regime of visibility as a general frame for understanding the dominant ways of visualizing mega-events which comprise elements of attractiveness and enjoyment, on one hand, and surveillance, control, and security, on the other. Based on the cases…
Estonia and the refugees
The article addresses two dimensions of the refugee debate in Estonia – political discourses and cultural representations. The authors specifically focus on distinctions between the mainstream Estonian narrative and that of the Russophone community, as well as on the role of Russia and Europe as two major shapers of the refugee debate
The Four Pillars of Russia’s Power Narrative
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the annexation of Crimea were two major international events in which Russia engaged in early 2014. In spite of all the divergence in the logic underpinning each of them, four concepts strongly resonate in both cases. First, in hosting the Olympics and in appropriating Crimea, Russia was motivated by solidifying its sovereignty as the key concept in its foreign and domestic policies. Second, the scenarios for…
Brands, cities and (post-)politics
This article analyses how two large-scale sports events in Russia shape regional identities and brands, and prompt different social and administrative effects in urban milieus. These two mega-events are the Universiade in Kazan’ in 2013 and the Football World Cup to take place in 11 Russian cities, among which we focus more specifically on Nizhny Novgorod. We argue that the logic of municipal and regional authorities is largely based on post-poli…
Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia
International audience
Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine
Estonia and the refugees
The article addresses two dimensions of the refugee debate in Estonia – political discourses and cultural representations. The authors specifically focus on distinctions between the mainstream Estonian narrative and that of the Russophone community, as well as on the role of Russia and Europe as two major shapers of the refugee debate
Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion . Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Biopower and geopolitics as Russia's neighborhood strategies
In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant realist approaches to Russia's neighborhood policy by introducing the concept of biopolitics as its key element, which makes analysis of political relations in the post-Soviet area more nuanced and variegated. More specifically, we address an important distinction between geop…
Biopolitics and national identities
International audience
Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus
Comprehensive approximation” with the EU
This article examines Georgia’s experience of civil society engagement with reforms after 2008, which attests to the country’s Euro-integrationist aspirations. In particular, the research addresses practices of the promotion of liberal democracy as forms of biopolitical governmentality pursued by Western state and non-state actors towards and in Georgia, raising the question of what the mechanisms of adoption and “domestication” of this knowledge…
Imperial Biopolitics and Its Disavowals
Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Volume 7, Number 1, January 2018
Illiberal geographies
In this article, we focus on how a variety of illiberal discourses construct a scene for new geopolitical and geocultural imageries of the post-Soviet space, Europe, and Eurasia. Academically, our approach falls into disciplinary niches known as popular geopolitics (when it comes to territories) and biopolitics (when it comes to people). More specifically, we try to see how Russian artistic personalities and public intellectuals contribute to the…
Entertain and Govern
The article looks at Russia’s international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The…
A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
The article examines the question of how the refugee crisis in Europe re-actualizes the existing national geopolitical narratives and affects the border-(re)drawing of European political communities. I particularly refer to the Estonian experience, which I examine through two different case studies. The first one focuses on the refugee issue as seen from the perspective of fostering a less nationalistic and more heterogeneous identity in Estonia,…
Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus
"Russian "Federalism
Relations between the center and regions in Russia, being always in the limelight of attention in political science literature, remain a battlefield of different scholarly interpretations. Several narratives shape the current debate on Russian subnational regionalism or, in very legalistic terms, "federalism." One is bent on applying to Russia such normatively-loaded concepts as multilevel and networked governance, meta-governance, indigenous gov…
Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet
This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and (de)bordering. The authors strive to go beyond the traditional understandings of biopolitics as a set of policies corresponding to the management and regulation of (pre)existing populations. In their opinion, biopolitics might be part …
Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond
In this article, I compare Polish and Russian national identity projects as they are being developed by the Kremlin and the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party after 2012 and 2015, correspondingly. I raise a question about nodal points of Poland’s and Russia’s collective identities and their institutional references as ‘illiberal democracies’ to the European normative order. I argue, that despite the existing differences between the two national p…
Europe's frontline of information wars
This article approaches Russophone groups in Estonia and Germany as discursive subjects and producers of their own narratives and storylines that are either technically independent from Moscow's control or implicitly challenge Kremlin's propaganda. The major goal of this research is to compare how the German and Estonian Russophone communities react to the situation of information warfare in which they are important targets of Russia's ‘compatrio…
Biopolitical Populism in Poland
This paper examines the discourse of PiS party in Poland as a form of biopolitical populism. I view this phenomenon as a specific style of political discourse rather than an ideology, that, first , focuses on bodily issues, including family and gender policy, sexual behavior, etc., second —it is inherently performative and as such it appeals to emotions, and, third —it directly communicates with “people” while circumventing the existing instituti…
Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet
The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility
The article addresses visualizations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian and international digital media. Drawing on the scholarship on discoursive hegemony, the authors intoduce a concept of hegemonic regime of visibility as a general frame for understanding the dominant ways of visualizing mega-events which comprise elements of attractiveness and enjoyment, on one hand, and surveillance, control, and security, on the other. Based on the cases…
Biopolitical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK
This paper seeks to examine the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK, as covered by the Russian state media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today). I view the RT coverage through the prism of biopolitics and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to demonstrate multiple discrepancies in its “post-truth” knowledge production strategies. I argue that these strategies aim to expose the hybrid and controversial nature of biopolitical governan…
PiS’s Biopolitical Sovereignty vis-à-vis Brussels’ ‘Gender Ideology’
On the eve of the 2023 Polish general election, the conflict between the incumbent PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – Law and Justice) party and the European Union on the LGBTIQ issue can be framed as a clash of two biopolitical projects – the EU’s (which follows democratic principles and refers to LGBTIQ rights as human rights) and Poland’s (which accepts the EU’s paradigm of human rights but tries to establish its own biopolitical vision of the LGBT…
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia
The present paper analyses the public debates in Estonia related to the Soviet-era monuments in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of the ‘mnemonic security’. The latter concept implies a policy that makes certain historical memories ‘secure by delegitimizing or outright criminalizing others’ (Mälksoo 2015:221). In this context, the analytical focus is on such research questions as how a common past is reme…
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